Site Updates In March 2015

No more broken links: all internal links on Bitcoin.org’s 834 pages
are now automatically checked by HTML Proofer through our Travis
Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure. We plan to enable HTML
Proofer’s HTML validation subroutine in the future to provide even
better quality assurance. Thanks to HTML Proofer author Garen
Torikian for writing such a great tool!

Coinapult wallet was briefly removed from the Bitcoin.org Choose Your
Wallet page after they suffered a security breach. After restoring
full services to their customers and assuring us that customer
deposits are safe, we re-added them.

KnC wallet has been removed from the Choose Your Wallet page after
multiple issues, including an abandoned website, no new commits to
their codebase in several months, and reports that their iOS app
no longer worked. (In positive news, we have received reports that it
is still possible to recover funds from the wallet seed.)

Translations were updated thanks to translation volunteers on
Transifex.

Seven new events were added. Please check the Events page to see
whether there are any interesting Bitcoin meetups or conferences in
your area.

New pages & features: a developer documentation glossary
section and Javascript-based search engine were proposed but not
quite finished by the end of the month.

Site Traffic

According to or website statistics, 4.3 million people visited the
website in March. However, as seen in the illustration below, there was
a suspicious spike in visits that look like a possible attempt at
referer spam (even though we don’t publish referer information).
Almost all of the suspicious traffic was directed at the Spanish, Dutch,
and French Bitcoin.org home pages, leaving statistics for the rest of
the site fairly accurate.

We suspect the accurate number of unique visitors in March was around
2.0 million, roughly the same as in February.

Notable traffic patterns this month included:

The Full Node Guide first released last month received over 8,000
page views, a surprisingly high number for a new technical document.
Hopefully this is a sign that users really want to run full nodes for
themselves.

The Choose Your Wallet page continues to receive over 130,000 page
views a month, as it keeps on trying to help novice users choose
their first Bitcoin wallet.